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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
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Subject: Re: Tech/sci & magic--esp. Anthony's Apprentice Adept
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 14:31:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 14:31:14 1985
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> > --  while waiting for a D&D game to start the other
> > night, several of us were discussing the interface between
> > technology/science and magic.
> >                                           Can anyone give me some
> > examples of stories in a similar vein. 
> > 
> > Chris Miller
> 	Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept Series.  In it the same
> matter used as magic "mana" is also an extremely valuable source
> of energy.  However, I do not recommend the series because although
> I have read this series and most of his Xanth stuff, he's very limited
> in his description of the capacity of magic.  He limits it too much;
> for instance: in xanth everyone has one (1) magical ability.  In the
> Apprentice Adept books, an adept could work magic through one means-
> in Style's case it was through music.
> 		Moshe Eliovson

I think that in the Apprentice Adept books, one of the points Anthony
goes to great lengths to make is the flexibility and diversity of effects
which one can create given 'just one means' of magic work.  Thus in
the books, though music is Stile's only form of 'shaping power' (the more
and better music, the stronger spells he can cast), the effects range from
teleportation to transformation, and more (it's been a while since I read
the books........)
-- 
					AMBAR
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